Likes rum and hair tonic mix--Zioncheck relates favorite drink and exclaims that he is happy. - Many recent events in Washington, Virginia, Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands were explained today when Rep. Marion Zioncheck said he mixes...

Clapp relates "birth" of dam. - William A. Clapp, Ephrata, says: "I have been given credit for the idea of the Grand Coulee dam. I do not know whether any one else had the same idea or not but it popped into my head one day in 1917 after I had...

Visitor relates "inside" on dam. - Former Governor Thomas E. Campbell of Phoenix, Ariz., chairman of the original fact-finding reclamation commission appointed by President Coolidge, which in 1924 reported favorably on the Columbia river basin...

Relates existence of fabulous ledge. - Another "lost gold mine" legend was in the making here today as the result of a letter, written by B. W. Rice of Caldwell to the Minidoka County News at Rupert, Idaho, recounting a story of a fabulously rich...

Pullman's first school teacher relates her early-day experiencesAside with your cares and frowns and come with me into the facinating archives of history to listen to a tale of Pullman in swaddling clothes told by a sweet old lady, an image of...

Indian bigamist granted divorce. - Mary Abraham To To relates alleged cruelties of tribal husband. - The marital troubles of an Indian girl, who, when only 17 years old, was forced to marry, according to tribal custom, was told by Mary Abraham To...

Bell boy gold ends obligation. - Difficulty of satisfying 80 owners surmounted, says manager. - The suspension of operations by the Bell Boy Gold Mining company in the Golden Circle of Marysville, Mont., was due to a vexatious circumstance, relates...

Hardest rock near its goal - three Rainbow contractors tackled it, 4200 feet in- manager undiscouraged - The final drive of the Rainbow Mining and Milling company, opening its No. 3 group, a property of large area in the Coeur d'ALene region of...

Plan for study of silver statusSpokane works for one session of metal conferencesTwenty thousand dollars was appropriated by the Senate committee, or as much of that amount as necessary, for holding hearings and doing other investigations...

Old chief wanted lobster. - Craved "Great White Man's Food," railroad official relates. - William Blonder, Great Northern representative at the Panama-Pacific International exposition at San Francisco and prior to the war immigration agent,...

Silver strike cuts more ore - reports nearly nine feet at 900-foot depth- driving 100 feet lower - There has been belief in the official circle of the Silver Strike Mining company that deep in its property, in the Summit district of the Coeur...

What 6 miners use for money - powder, grib, tools and stock run tunnel, erect camp, make road - The disclosure of gold ore on the Bullion Lode group on Summit flat, 3 1/2 miles northwest of Orogrande, Idaho, only created a problem for Hensel and...

Riches in Spyglass Owner develops ground unworked for decades McLeod's purchase sent a man abroad and to affluence, he relates Poplar creek, in the Lardeau district of British Columbia, a region of excitement 23 years ago, is the scene...

Strike secret kept for years.Discoverer injured on reaching 16-foot vein of metals, he relates. Sandpoint, Idaho, Jan. 21.-E.H. Hammond, prospector and miner, who has been in this district for 27 years, came into Sandpoint this morning with the...

Speeding work in spring hill. - Montana mines shoots car concentrate every fourth day-reports $3000 net each. - "The last four carloads of concentrated ore from the Spring Hill mine of the Montana Mines corporation had a net smelter value...

Germany, although attacking on the western front, is starving, says the Echo de Paris. An article appearing in the Berlin Arbeiter Zeitung relates the details of six children starving to death in an orphanage at Zenefort, Thuringia. The orphanage...

Herb Ashlock Works on City NewspaperSecure Employment as sports editor and reporter of Spokane PressHerb Ashlock, 1934 mid-year graduate of Washington State college has recently been employed as sports editor of the Spokane Press. A sports...

Fair warning to governor Martin. - A clinching reason why Governor Martin, State Treasurer Gallagher and State Auditor Yelle should not put state trust funds into Seattle city warrants is found in a leading editorial in the Seattle Times. Current...

Zinc imports into u. s. grow. - Total of 3941 tons received in august-receipt of lead and scrap less. - Receipts of lead and scrap by United States smelters during August totaled 45,315 tons compared with 45,748 in July and 36,708 in August 1936,...